Woody Walton On March 1st we added The Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) to Open License Offerings in Open Business and Open Value. Please see my post here for details on the overall offering. Tomorrow we flush out EMS in the channel further by extending...

Q: (from Andrew) It looks like RemoteApp could be the solution to my Azure technical problems. I’d like to set it up in a separate account to get a handle on the implementation process. Do you know if there’s a way of doing this without having to pay...

Rob Waggoner As we build Azure to be the most complete global cloud solution, we run into the issue where every service cannot be in every one of our datacenters, especially when new services are deployed. We have a staged approach on delivering new services...

Onur Dogruoz In this video, I will walk you through the setup and configuration of Azure backup vault and backup schedules on Windows Server. You will see how easy it is to get your data protected with Azure. Be sure to check out our whole series of ...

Josh Condie – With Zig Serafin’s blog announcement last week ( http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/18/skype-for-business-is-here-and-this-is-only-the-beginning/ ) it’s important that we prepare our partner community for the release of Skype for Business to...

Jeff Stoffel During Satya Nadella’s keynote Monday at the Convergence conference , he showed Office Delve as a prime example of how Microsoft is reimagining productivity to help people work in new and more connected ways. After spending some time with...

Q: (from Jim) I have a client going on E3 shortly (small number of users) and that’s been decided. However, they have asked me if it’s possible to restrict some users to only access Office 365 while at their Office Location, so from one specific identifiable...

Rob Waggoner I’ve spent a lot of time with ASR lately and during some of my performance testing, I was directed to this article to improve the upload performance of my ASR replica’s. If it weren't for the fact that someone told me to read this article...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- Along with the O365 incentives that I blogged about, I also wanted to make sure you were familiar with another offer that you will definitely want to take advantage of! Essentially what we have for here...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- We are really excited to announce that there are quite a few offers in place to help you accelerate your Office 365 practice. As you review the offers below, you will notice that the more customers you...

*Repost from today’s Partner Connect Newletter : Dear Partners, We are excited to announce that the technical preview of the Skype for Business client is available today . Skype for Business combines a familiar Skype-inspired experience, an expanded Lync...

Tim Tetrick As I mentioned in my Office 365 for Mac and iOS environments blog a few months back, Microsoft planned to release a public beta of the next version of Office for Mac in the first half of 2015. Well I’m happy to report that Office 2016 Mac...

Onur Dogruoz MPN Team announced a new Internal Use Rights (IUR) offer to help you with your migration to Office 365. This offer is called “Office 365 IUR SkyKick Migration Offer” and gives you free use of SkyKick’s Migration Suites to easily migrate and...

J.J. Antequino ---------------------------------- We hope you all agree that demoing the benefits of Office 365 can go a long way towards closing a sale. But one of the negative aspects to enabling MEC Demo tenant in the past was the fact either the tenant...

Rob Waggoner Azure limits the size of your OS boot volume to 127 GB. For new workloads, this limitation is not a significant barrier because you can add additional volumes to your Azure VMs, but for existing on-premises workloads that were not built leveraging...

Welcome! My team will be doing a number of videos around various components in Azure. The goal of this series is to give you very short messages around a number of the key Azure components needed to build a solution on Azure. We will start with the basics...

Tim Tetrick Hello Microsoft Cloud Partners! If you’ve ever had a customer or prospect ask to see a demonstration of Office 365 in action, feel free to send them to the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvOjXJICCRE (and also embedded below). It...

Woody Walton UPDATE: See Webcast on April 1st on EMS. New Post here Well the wait is finally over. Starting Monday, March 2nd, the Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite , aka EMS , will be available for sale through distribution via Microsoft’s Open License...

Woody Walton Partners, Whenever I see a great sales aid I have to mention it. It just so happens that a peer of mine referred this to me a few days ago. If you sell Office 365, you need (or your reps need) to have this handy. I especially love it when...

Rob Waggoner In this video, I walk through the ASR Failover Process and show you the steps Azure Site Recovery takes to ensure that data is not lost in a planned failover, as well as show you how you could select prior recovery points if your current...

Rob Waggoner In this video, I walk through the Test Failover scenario. I will show you how to initiate a Test Failover and the results of a Test Failover scenario. Take note that a Test Failover scenario exists so you can ensure that your VM is replicating...

Jeff Stoffel Are you a Cloud novice or already have a flourishing Cloud practice? We hear from you all the time that it is tough to keep up with all the new Cloud updates. You have a lot of technical questions for which you need answers. We have listened...

Partners, Watch a demo of how to add an application integration to your user accounts in Azure Active Directory. Give users one web portal to access ALL of their SaaS applications, whether they are on their laptop, tablet or phone! Your users may be using...